Duncansville, PA, USA
On Tuesday Aug 22, 2017 around 8:20 EST me and a coworker spotted a bright orange light flying over Duncansville Pa. At first we though
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-22
- Where
- Duncansville, PA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 40.423, -78.434 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-duncansville-pa-2017-d6c722
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Duncansville, PA shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 179 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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